I’m happy to announce the first release of okularplugin. It allows embedded viewing of pdfs in browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Okularplugin is intended as a lightweight replacement for Adobe’s Acrobat Reader browser plugin.

For viewing documents okularplugin utilizes Okular – a universal document viewer for KDE. This means that you get the full power of Okular directly in your browser. The following file formats are currently supported by okularplugin:

Because of missing alternatives the Acrobat Reader was always my preferred application for embedded viewing of pdfs in Firefox. But now I use Okularplugin – a lightweight browser plugin that is intended for replacing Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.

Okularplugin was initially created by jeremysanders. But looks like he is no longer interested in maintaining it, so I adopted it and improved many things since then. For example I optimized the layout for viewing in web browsers. Okularplugin is a plugin for NPAPI-compatible browsers. This means it works with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome / Chromium and Opera. Try it out yourself!